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THE COLLEGIUM Forum & Television Program Berlin, Kaveh Ghahremany-IRAN-Filmmaker

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A Conversation with the filmmaker, Kaveh Ghahremany, Islamic Republic of Iran,during the XXIV. Black International Cinema Berlin 2009. Rathaus Schöneberg, Berlin/Germany Moderator: Prof. Donald Muldrow Griffith ...

Ballads & Things, ARTS CALENDAR, The Collegium - Forum & Television Program Berlin

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THE COLLEGIUM - Forum & Television Program Berlin Production & Direction: Fountainhead Tanz Theatre, Black International Cinema Berlin, Cultural Zephyr e.V. ....We Have a Dream and Still We Rise.... ...

Press Release: The International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro 2013 invites nuclear films

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Press Release: The International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro 2013 invites nuclear films The next International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro is scheduled for May 2013. It is the worldwide only film festival that tackles all nuclear issues: from exploration and mining of radioactive minerals like uranium to nuclear energy production, atomic waste, nuclear medicine, atomic bombs, nuclear war and nuclear or radioactive accidents: from Three Mile Island to Chernobyl, Goi...

Chile in focus at the 36th Goteborg Film Festival

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Today we're revealing the festival's focus and announcing the first four films from the programme for 2013! For its 36th year, Göteborg International Film Festival has decided to spotlight Chilean film. 40 years after Pinochet's military coup d'état, Chile's film industry is once again blooming with a wave of young Chilean filmmakers finding success abroad.  During the military dictatorship, many people were persecuted and killed as a result of their political opinions. The o...

Another speaking engagement in Bogota Colombia for our editor Bruno Chatelin

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My next speaking engagement (after Katowice Ars Festival) will include a  presentation of my Short Film Ensemble and Claude Lelouch's Roman de Gare http://issuu.com/alianzacolombofrancesa Alliance Française in Colombia check for details page 47. I will also be giving 3 masterclasses and organise a 48 hours shoot out in Bogotta. In cunjunction with a "Bruno Chatelin Award" (OMG) at the Festival of French Cinema Watch their fantastic trailer below. ...

Kenneth Fernandez

Kenneth Fernandez does voices... Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joe Stalin, Charles de Gaulle, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Pierre Trudeau, Ronald Reagan, Queen Elizabeth II, Jean Chrétien, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, F.W. De Klerk,  Paul Martin, Brian Mulroney,  Margaret Thatcher,  Hugo Chavez, Yasser Arafat, Giscard d’Estaing, Shimon Perez, Yitzhak Rabin, George H.W. Bush,                                            George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama  3:41 minutes (3.38 MB)

'LA PLAYA D.C.' at 65th Cannes Film Festival

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   The Columbian, Brazilian and French co-production film ‘LA PLAYA D.C.’ (2012) by Columbian director Juan Andrés Arango held its world premier last week in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ section of the 65th Cannes Film Festival. I held an interview with Juan the day after his first screening, which had been successfully met with ardent applause.     ME: You have a new movie from Columbia called: LA PLAYA (2012) that has just opened here at Cannes. Can you t...

‘LA PLAYA D.C.’ (2012) by Columbian director Juan Andrés ARANGO

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   The Columbian, Brazilian and French co-production film ‘LA PLAYA D.C.’ (2012) by Columbian director Juan Andrés ARANGO held its world premier last week in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ section of the 65th Cannes Film Festival. I held an interview with Juan the day after his first screening, which had been successfully met with ardent applause.     ME: You have a new movie from Columbia called: LA PLAYA (2012) that has just opened here at Cannes. Can you t...

Artists and creators in search of a solution to common problems at the UNESCO Forum

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The international Forum Balkan Visions: Creativity For The Future In South – East Europe was inagurated yesterday at the presence of Yordanka Fandakova, the Mayor of Sofia, Georgi Stoev, the deputy minister of Culture, Francesco Bandarin, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture, and Stefan Kitanov, the director of Sofia International Film Festival as part of the 16th edition of the festival. The Forum, organized with the support of Sofia Municipality, will include three ro...

Müphem

Director: Süleyman Demirel.
In Turkey, the future is vague, but it’s determined by birth. Turkey's militarist history is a part of Turkish citizens future. In Turkey, there is a phrase: "Every Turk is born as a soldier."

Q&A with Belmin Söylemez at Istanbul Film Festival

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Present Tense, a Golden Tulip National Competition film, is the debut fiction feature of Belmin Söylemez, who is renowned with her documentaries. The film is about an unemployed, lonely and unhappy woman who saves money in order to go to the United States. It bridges over the past, the future and today through coffee reading. Present Tense will premiere on Saturday, April 13 at 21.30 at Atlas Sineması. Interview: Ceyda Aşar - Your film in which you also tell about Is...

Interview with Edgardo Cozarinsky at Istanbul Film Festival

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An Argentine Istanbul writer… Memories of a lovelorn man, walking around Buenos Aires after a break up, unites with memories of world and cinema history. Poems praising the night are the music of the film. Screened within the “Challenging the Years” section of the Festival, Nocturnos addresses the audience on the point where literature and cinema come together. It is just like a sweet dream that leaves a short and temporary taste behind. Istanbul streets continue to inspire Edgardo...

Asian supernatural war drama, FREEDOM DEAL, set to undertake local casting in real-life 'Apocalypse Now' areas of Cambodia

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Local Casting to Commence for Vietnam war-era feature drama, FREEDOM DEAL "The Department of Cinema and Cultural Diffusion totally supports your initiation into film production!“  - Cambodian government statement of support from Mr. Sin Chan Saya, Director Department of Cinema and Cultural Diffusion, Phnom Penh Cambodia FREEDOM DEAL (www.freedomdealmovie.com), a feature film by Camerado SE Asia, now shifts to Phase III of the development process. Thanks to al...

Fountainhead e-Letter, Berlin/Germany

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FOUNTAINHEAD® TANZ THEATRE e - LETTER . Berlin/Germany February 2012 www.fountainhead-tanz-theatre.de www.blackinternationalcinema.de www.black-international-cinema.com Please send replies to / Bitte senden Sie Antworten an bicdance@aol.com ******************************************************* Production & Direction FOUNTAINHEAD® TANZ THEATRE THE COLLEGIUM - FORUM & TELEVISION PROGRAM BERLIN &...

Full program of the Fribourg International Film Festival 2012

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Twelve films are in the running this year for the Regard d’Or, the top award of the Fribourg International Film Festival (March 24 – 31), which carries a prize of CHF 30,000 (USD 33,000). For the competition, current productions were selected from the FIFF’s traditional focal points, namely South and Latin America, Asia and Africa. In addition the Near and Middle East are represented, with films from Jordan, Egypt and Iran. Many film-makers will be in attendance in Fribourg to present the...

ECU Scott Hillier shooting a documentary in Libya

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26/01 If you have a good story, pursue it — immediately and at any cost — preaches Scott Hillier, Oscar honored filmmaker and president of ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival. Scott, in pursuit of a good story, is doing just that. Departing for Libya this evening, Scott and his crew will film a documentary following Jihan Mansur Kikhia, the daughter of former Libyan Foreign Affairs Minister Mansur Kikhia, as she seeks to uncover the truth about her father’s...

THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES

ÉCU’S PARTNER FROM MALAYSIA

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Kuala Lumpur International Short Film Festival30 January – 1 February 2012The Kuala Lumpur International Short Film Festival (KLIS) is the first and only short film festival in Malaysia and it is based in the metropolitan city of Kuala Lumpur.The Kuala Lumpur International Short Film Festival (KLIS) showcase the shorts by filmmakers from around the world to an audience of film executives and buyers, journalists, film fans and filmmakers. Along with screenings, there are seminars, workshops and...

Interview with Romanian New Wave filmmaker GABRIEL ACHIM

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Director Gabriel Achim   When I met Romanian director Gabriel Achim, I asked him about his film and he said this: 'Well, if you like intellectual porn then you will like my film...' Well, what a pitch because I couldn’t wait to see it, and indeed ADALBERT'S DREAM (Visul Lui Adalbert, 2011) IS ‘Intellectual Porn’… Read below to get to first base. But to go all the way, you’ll have to see the film!   ME: why is it called ‘Adalb...

Japanese Prime Minister Opens 24th Tokyo International Film Festival

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By Liza Foreman TOKYO -   The rain stopped just in time for the celebrities to walk the green carpet, laid out for the opening of the 24th Tokyo International FilmFestival (October 22-30th) on Saturday. TIFF chairman Tom Yoda welcomed guests, including Jackie Chan, whose 100th film“1911” kicked off events as the special opening film. Highlights of the night included the cast of the “Fukushima Hula Girls,” participating as part of the national caravan for the recons...

International Competition Jury Press Conference

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International Feature Film Competition Jury will meet with members of the media at the press conference on Tuesday, October 11 at 10:00 am Hillside Su Hotel. The Mayor of Antalya City and President of the Board of Directors for the Antalya Culture and Arts Foundation; Prof. Mustafa Akaydın, Dutch director and the president of the jury  Marleen Gorris, and the jurors; successful Iranian director and actress Niki Karimi, the Georgian National Film Center director Tamara Tatishvili, Turkish ...

RIFF 2011 awards and coverage

A cozy situation in the president of Iceland's house... President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Bela Tarr, IndieWire's Alena and the beautiful house pet :-) photo by Vanessa McMahon

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